Who is?

My ex wife for one, who would like to play Steam games but is not experienced enough to build and fiddle with a gaming PC, much less Linux, and just wants a box she can just plug in and turn on without calling all the IT folks in her family.

Don’t forget about our nerd bias. Most people here have a different perspective than 95% of normies. Remember how clueless the average person is about the inner workings of modern tech.

“Brace” implies they are completely unprepared and fully expected her to serve 50 more years.

Edit: yeah called it

“I wish she would stay for 10 more years,” said one House Democrat from California.

I see it as anybody too young to remember a world that wasn’t connected 24/7, somebody who in their child/teen years that didn’t make heavy use of the phone attached to the kitchen wall to contact friends. Someone who’s never had to seriously use dialup Internet or an 8/16 bit computer.

This will be the (fifth?) time Microsoft has tried to implement virtual assistants. And they are still exceedingly inefficient at it.

There was an idea I read about, sorta along the same crazy track, (might have been Popular Science or something like 25 years ago) where they came up with an idea for a jet that didn’t use traditional control surfaces like ailerons, but rather line the wings and fuselage in thousands of tiny flaps that would all be precisely computer controlled. It would be able to basically mold and shape the airstream around itself to make precise movements.

Off topic, but I think it’s funny that the cutoff for a more modern worldview ends at 50 now, because all the older millennials are well into their 40s now and we have to include them because they were a main driving force behind “occupy” movement 14 years ago.

10 years ago you saw “under 40” being thrown around. 😂

WTF did the furries do? Why are they involved in all this at all?

As someone who uses scissor lifts a lot, I wish the manufacturers standardized on one way. Some have you push the joystick forward to descend, others will raise the platform when doing the same. I’ve damn near smashed some things in the ceiling going the wrong way for a second.

This is the most boomer-y comment I’ve read in a while. I remember my parents saying shit like this about me and my NES.

The bassline outros in his TV show were funnier than the man himself.

I usually do it when we take over a customer’s access control system and we have half their doors on the new system and half in the old still and are migrating them over. I’m an electronic security tech, this is what I do for a living.

I use it at work to clone a customer’s proximity card when I work in their building so they don’t have to leave me theirs to get around. The one legitimate use I found.

I guess being able to trigger the customer service announcement without having to find a button in a store is nice.

Thank you!

Please tell me there’s a Shermanposting community on the fediverse.

I know exactly 0 people who are still watching over-the-air TV.

Say goodbye to human spaceflight for an entire generation. We made a huge mistake hitching everything onto this fucker’s stuff.

I’ve been waiting for us to leave LEO since I was a kid in the 80s and it now looks like I might be dying without ever having witnessed even a moon landing. I envy my parents.

Unless China or India or Russia pull something off. They’re all we have after this.

loose 90% of the games you play as well

It’s 2025, not 2007. This is a huge exaggeration. Maybe try it again sometime.

The article is about Altair BASIC. That one was actually homegrown.

Who asked for this? Did y’all ask for this? I don’t remember asking for this.

Looks around room in confusion

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